IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
MONROE COUNTY, OHIO
JOHN M. CROTHERS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. GARY PYLES, et al., Defendants.
Case No.: 2021-202
Judge Julie R. Selmon
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION
TO: I.T. Pyles, John L. Pyles, Brady O. Byles, Samuel S. Pyles, James T. Pyles, Emmet C. Pyles, Irena B. Schmoker, W.B. Pyles, Brian Cettomai, Roy Hansen, John Lewis, Mary Long, Deanna Saylor, Joseph Pastore, John Guenther, John Fodor, Janine Pyles, Emma E. Pyles, Jennie Pyles, Henry Schmoker, Margaret Pyles, Eunice Pyles, Edna Pyles Moore, Franklin L. Pyles, Bertha Pyles, Floyd W. Pyles, Bessie Pyles, Harold Pyles, Virginia Pyles, Olga Pyles Ingler, Bernard Pyles, Coral Pyles, Dorothy Pyles Ridlen, Frank Archer Moore, Doris Moore, Barbara Ann Pyles Lewis, Jane L. Pyles Eberhardt, Frank Eberhardt, Emma Lou Pennington, Kathy Lewis Rockwood, Seth L. Rockwood, Margaret Winter, Paul O. Pyles, Minnie H. Pyles, James L. Pyles, Bertha Pyles, Lela Pyles Jeffers, Charles Jeffers, Roscoe Pyles, Howard Pyles, Eileen Pyles Adams, Lloyd Adams, Kenneth Pyles, Marilyn Pyles, Dorothy Pyles Charbono, James Pyles, Samuel Pyles, Lorraine Jeffers Workman, F. Eugene Jeffers, Wayne Pyles, Rick Pyles, Brenda Pyles Cettomai, Deborah Brennan, Raymond Brennan, Samuel Pyles, Carl Pyles, Arthur Pyles, Mary Pyles, John C. Pyles, Donald J. Pyles, Donna Pyles, Jean Pyles Ready, Marilyn Pyles, Vincent Ready, Alva Schmoker, Beryl Schmoker, Arthur Schmoker, Alvin Earle Schmoker, Rae Schmoker, John H. Pyles, Ida Pyles, Charles E. Pyles, Addie Pyles, Virginia Pyles Imhoff, Virgil Imhoff, Willard D. Pyles, Floyd D. Pyles, Augusta Pyles, Sylvia Pyles Melrose, Emmet H. Pyles, Edna Pyles, Kathie Duncan, Emmett Wayne Melrose, Connie Melrose Boggs, Larry Pyles, Pearl Pyles Duncanson, Orville Pyles, Lulu McMahon, Charles McMahon, John Pyles, William Pyles, Betty Pyles, Frank Pyles, Betty Pyles, Elizabeth Redpath, George McMahon, Reba McMahon, Mary Long, Harold McMahon, John Pyles, Charles Pyles, Mary Wilkinson, Patricia Anderson, J. Morgan Pyles, Rhoda Schoeppner, George Redpath, Joyce Voight, Walter Schoeppner, Clarence Pyles, Chris Pyles, Harvey Pyles, Webster Pyles, Ava Edison Pyles, Mary Pyles, Ada Bertig, Mary Pyles Lee, Frances X. Pyles, Eva Pyles, Emmet Pyles, William McAndrews, Bonnie McAndrews, Geraldo Pastore, Rose Pastore, John Pastore, Jeannette Pastore, Angelina Pastore, Joseph Pastore, Arllys Pastore, Antonette Fodor, Eugene Fodor, Walter Piccone, William Piccone, Jacqueline Stokes, Beverly Grice, Conrad Pennington, Gladys Roberts, Mary Shuskey, Alfred Shuskey, Lisa Gulley, Idol Brittain, Joy Jacks, Rosemary Nixon, Vicki Lever, Donna Brown, Kenneth Young, Forrest Swank, Kellie Morrison, Honour Swank, Roger Low, Lori Krause, Kathy Russ, Dawn Merryman, Joyce Kellogg, Debbie Zurek, Tammy Merryman, Theresa Abernathy, Carolyn Shields, John Blue, David Sayer, Sharon Covington, Margarette Smith, Steve Williams, Jerry Williams, Teena Emerson, Neil Ingraham, Donna Olmstead, Michael Sieck, George Brown, Stephan Bratt, Frederick Jones, Richard Jones, Barbara Hanlon, Warren Hotlzman, Suzanne Lowe, Gary Snyder, Patricia Norton, Cheryl Gunthridge, Michael Varley, Teresa Williams, Rose Frizell, William Frizzell, Lois Frizzell, Elizabeth McNally, Helen Frichthofen, Opal Johnson, Tom Hoover, David Holloway, Pauline Kootz, Brenda Nickerson, Ruth Shuskey, Alfred Shuskey, Mary Pruitt, Mary Heller, Carroll Heller, Jean Marie Heller, Susan Smith, George May, Dottie May, John May, Mae May, Eugene May, Kenneth May, Ralph Ellingson, Farris Ellington, Cordelia Nordyke, Marlene Story, Grant Ellington, Vernon Brittain, Charles Brittain, Ralph Hobbs, Peggy Smith, Lena Salisbury, James Salisbury, Juanita Chick, Betty Jackson, Betty Osborne, Anna Lever, William Lever, William Lever, Jr., Forest Swank, Betty Swank, Otto Swank, Virginia Swank, Mark Brown, Dee Ann Miller, Cecil Swank, Lynda Swank, Rosemary Jones, Virginia Mangan, Sherri Krause, Season Peters, Richard Low, Rex Krause, Ronnie Mangan, Gilman Merryman, Mary Merryman, Talma Walker, Winton Merryman, Robert Merryman, Samuel Merryman, Vincent Merryman, Kathryn Merryman, Bernetta Blue, Claude Belshe, Dorothy Covington, Chris Belshe, Bessie Brewer, Lawrence Brewer, Lois Anzivino, Dortha Graves, Norma Sechrist, Lowell Sechrist, Francis Ludden, Harvey Ludden, Ralph Ludden, Adrian Ludden, Reta Stickler, Beaulah Ingraham, Christine Lewis, Ramah Ribeiro, Antonio Ribeiro, Charles Ludden, Themla Ludden, Sarah Allen, Jack Allen, Elizabeth Gettier, Eleanor Brown, Mary Seney, John Seney, Richard Seney, C. Griffith Bratt, Mary Bratt, Mary Steffens, Else Watkins, Lucille Eliasberg, Jeanne Ramsen, John Ramsen, Charles Hotlzman, Linda Esposito, Evelyn Petralia, Marietta Guenther, Angelo Pastore, Frances Pastore, Annette Petrocco, Patricia McEvoy, Eleanor Schmoker Hansen, Helen Pyles, Scott Brooking, Mike Reidy, Anabelle Collins, Mary E. Collins, Judith Taddonio, and their unknown heirs, spouses, devisees, legatees, executors, administrators, relicts, next of kin, and assigns.
You are hereby notified that you have been named as Defendants in a legal action entitled John M. Crothers, et al. v. Gary Pyles, et al. This action has been assigned Case No. 2021-202, and is pending in the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, Woodsfield, Ohio, before the Honorable Judge Julie R. Selmon. On August 2, 2021, Defendants, Gary Pyles, Alan Schmoker, Bruce Adams, Melvin Boggs, Dina Conner, Diane Crawford, Sarah Davis, Donna Dietz, Francine Eakins, Danette Flores, Denise Harter, Linda Hutchison, Carol Kemnitzer, Carolyn King, Connie King, Patty Kline, Tina Koslosky, Susan Lee, Bruce Lewis, Marc Londo, William Londo, Bonnie McGinnis, Michell Titera, Patrick Maxwell, Sean Maxwell, Cynthia Maxwell, Michael Titera, Patrick Maxwell, next friend and natural guardian of Peyton Maxwell, a minor, Sean Maxwell, next friend and natural guardian of Richard Maxwell, a minor, Frank Moore, Linda Myers, Linda Owsley, Gail Pangborn, Eva Pastore, Betty Pyles, Earl Pyles, Ryan S. Pyles, Administrator of the estate of Jeffrey Pyles, deceased, Sherman Pyles, Terry Pyles, Maxine Rogers, Mary Rutledge, Cynthia Snyder, James Anderson, Eileen Vincent, Linda Melrose, Kevin Pyles, Larry Adams, Linda Eastin, Marilyn Sue Carmichael, Jeanette Ramaglia, Robert Villers, Terry Villers, Sharon Collins, Jeanne C. Schmoker, William O. Pyles, Jr., Eileen D. Walker, aka Jan Walker, Duane Duncanson, Eugene Duncanson, Brandi Frazier, Mary Trent, Susan Ready, Dennis Pyles, Maryann Maston, Brandon Duncan, Julie Zadigan, Charles Pyles, Randy Villers, Robert Schiemann, Trustee of the Virginia Mae Jeffers Living Trust dated October 10, 2000, Robert Barker, and Betty McAndrews, filed a Counterclaim against you.
The object of the Counterclaim is to quiet title to the Defendants’ oil and gas rights in the following described real estate:
Situate in the County of Monroe County in the State of Ohio and in the Township of Salem, and known as the North east quarter of the North west quarter of Section No. Ten, Township No. Three, Range No. Four, containing forty acres be the same more or less. Also one other tract of land Situate in Salem Township, Monroe County, Ohio, and described as follows: Section Eleven, Range Four, Township Three, a part of the South East quarter of the South west quarter; Commencing for the same at the South west corner of the South East quarter of the South West quarter; Thence North four rods to the Woodsfield Road; Thence with said Road a North East direction eighteen rods to a Stone; Thence a Southerly direction eighteen rods to the Section line; Thence with said section line eight rods west to the place of beginning, containing one half acre.
You are hereby required to answer the Counterclaim within 28 days after the last publication of this Notice, which will be published once each week for six (6) successive weeks. The last publication will be made on September 28, 2023, and the 28 days for an answer by you will commence on that date. You must file an answer to the Counterclaim with the Clerk of the Monroe County Common Pleas Court, Monroe County Courthouse, 101 North Main Street – Room 26, Woodsfield, Ohio 43793, and serve a copy on Daniel P. Corcoran, THEISEN BROCK, a legal professional association, 424 Second Street, Marietta, Ohio 45750.
In the case of your failure to answer or otherwise respond as required by the Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Counterclaim.
August 15, 2023
Beth Ann Rose, Clerk of the Monroe County Court of Common Pleas
Respectfully submitted,
Daniel P. Corcoran (0083512)
THEISEN BROCK, a legal professional association
424 Second Street
Marietta, Ohio 45750
Telephone: 740.373.5455
Telecopier: 740.373.4409
corcoran@theisenbrock.com
Counsel for Defendants, Gary Pyles, Alan Schmoker, Bruce Adams, Melvin Boggs, Dina Conner, Diane Crawford, Sarah Davis, Donna Dietz, Francine Eakins, Danette Flores, Denise Harter, Linda Hutchison, Carol Kemnitzer, Carolyn King, Connie King, Patty Kline, Tina Koslosky, Susan Lee, Bruce Lewis, Marc Londo, William Londo, Bonnie McGinnis, Michell Titera, Patrick Maxwell, Sean Maxwell, Cynthia Maxwell, Michael Titera, Patrick Maxwell, next friend and natural guardian of Peyton Maxwell, a minor, Sean Maxwell, next friend and natural guardian of Richard Maxwell, a minor, Frank Moore, Linda Myers, Linda Owsley, Gail Pangborn, Eva Pastore, Betty Pyles, Earl Pyles, Ryan S. Pyles, Administrator of the estate of Jeffrey Pyles, deceased, Sherman Pyles, Terry Pyles, Maxine Rogers, Mary Rutledge, Cynthia Snyder, James Anderson, Eileen Vincent, Linda Melrose, Kevin Pyles, Larry Adams, Linda Eastin, Marilyn Sue Carmichael, Jeanette Ramaglia, Robert Villers, Terry Villers, Sharon Collins, Jeanne C. Schmoker, William O. Pyles, Jr., Eileen D. Walker, aka Jan Walker, Duane Duncanson, Eugene Duncanson, Brandi Frazier, Mary Trent, Susan Ready, Dennis Pyles, Maryann Maston, Brandon Duncan, Julie Zadigan, Charles Pyles, Randy Villers, Robert Schiemann, Trustee of the Virginia Mae Jeffers Living Trust dated October 10, 2000, Robert Barker, and Betty McAndrews
August 24, 31, September 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023
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LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Gulfport Appalachia, LLC (“Gulfport”), a Delaware corporation with an address of 713 Market Drive, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73114, hereby gives Notice pursuant to ORC 1509.28 that Gulfport has filed an application with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil & Gas Resources Management (“Division”) requesting an order from the Chief to allow for unit operation (“Unitization”) of certain contiguous properties in Wayne Township, Belmont County and Sunsbury Township, Monroe County, to form a drilling unit to be known as the Westhawk III Unit (the “Unit Area”).
Property records in Belmont and Monroe Counties depict the following mineral interest & possible parties owning in these tracts:
46-00126.001: Dale Jenewein and Brenda Craig, by deed in DB 767/99.
46-00014.000: Lisa Jo Jenewein, by deed in OR 631/326.
24-003019.0000: Gateway Royalty IV, LLC, by deed in OR 386/2537.
25-006025.1000: Danny L. Kuhn, by deed in OR 86/232.
25-001003.0000, 25-001029.0000, 25-001030.0000, 25-001027.0000: The Heirs of Grace Saffield Mobley, deceased, c/o Brenda Saffield, by deed in DR 188/841, DR 183/92 and DR 175/13.
25-003017.1000: Dylan Hayes, unmarried, and Tami Szyper, married, by deed in OR 406/1734.
25-005010.0000: The Heirs of Carol I. Fisher, deceased, by deed in OR 9/887.
25-005013.0000, 25-005014.0000, 25-005016.0000, 25-005017.0000, 25-005028.0000, 25-005029.0000, 25-005015.0000: Carol J. Warren, by deed in OR 155/707 and DR 199/555.
25-003012.20000: Ohio Bell Telephone Company also dba AT&T Ohio, Attn: Marybeth Pishek, Portfolio Manager, by deed in DR 179/233.
25-003035.0000, 25-003010.2000, 25-003009.0000: Michael Deen Crooks aka Michael D. Crooks, unmarried, by deed in OR 141/3 and OR 5/653
25-003010.2000, 25-003009.0000: Larry L. Anslow, unmarried, by deed in OR 5/653.
25-003028.0000: Samantha J. Brewer, by deed in OR 262/831.
25-005050.0000: Michael T. Resecker aka Michael Todd Resecker, by deed in OR 387/2032 and OR 8/528.
If you would like to attend this hearing, please go to https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-teams/join-a-meeting, click on Join and enter the following meeting information: Meeting ID is 269 262 525 520; Passcode is BXFyYG. You may also listen to and participate in the hearing by phone by following the instructions detailed below: Phone Number is +1 614-721-2972 United States Toll; Phone Conference ID is 710 182 698#. Service by publication shall be complete upon the expiration of four weeks after the date of the first publication of this notice.
The date of the first publication of this notice is September 7, 2023. The date of the last publication is September 28, 2023. The parties, their representatives, & their successors in interest listed above are hereby notified that the Division has scheduled a virtual hearing for Wednesday, October 25, 2023, via Webex at 9:00 a.m. est. Participants may also dial in via phone and enter the meeting access code. For further information regarding this hearing, please visit the Division of Oil & Gas Resources Management’s website at http://oil&gas.ohiodnr.gov/unitization.
September 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023
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INVITATION TO BID
Sealed proposals for the Sardis Community Center Outdoor Restroom will be received by the Monroe County Commissioners at their office, 101 North Main Street, Room 34, Woodsfield, OH 43793 until 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, and then at said time at said office, they will be opened and read aloud.
This bid request is for one prefabricated outdoor restroom to be placed in the playground area at the Sardis Community Center, 37184 Mound Street, Sardis, Ohio 43946. Specifications and bid forms may be secured by contacting Alyssa Stephens, OSU Extension, via email at stephens.967@osu.edu.
Each bid must be accompanied by either a bid bond in an amount of 10% of the bid amount with a surety satisfactory to the aforesaid Monroe County Commissioners or by certified check, cashier’s check, or letter of credit upon a solvent bank in the amount of not less than 10% of the bid amount in favor of the aforesaid Monroe County Commissioners. A combination bid/performance/payment bond (contract bond) for 100% of the bid amount is acceptable and must conform to Ohio Revised Code Section 153.57
Bids shall be sealed and marked as “Sardis Community Center Outdoor Restroom” and mailed or delivered to:
Monroe County Commissioners
101 North Main Street, Room 34
Woodsfield, OH 43793
Attention of bidders is called to all the requirements contained in the bid packet, particularly to various insurance requirements, various equal opportunity provisions, and the requirement for a payment bond and performance bond for 100% of the contract price.
No bidder may withdraw his bid within sixty (60) days after the actual date of the opening thereof. The Monroe County Commissioners reserve the right to waive any informality or to reject any or all bids.
September 21, 28, 2023
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INVITATION TO BID
Sealed proposals for the Center Township Handicapped Parking project will be received by the Monroe County Commissioners at their office, 101 North Main Street, Room 34, Woodsfield, OH 43793 until 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, and then at said time at said office opened and read aloud.
Plans, specifications, and bid forms may be secured by contacting Alyssa Stephens at OSU Extension, via email at Stephens.967@osu.edu.
Each bid must be accompanied by either a bid bond in an amount of 10% of the bid amount with a surety satisfactory to the aforesaid Monroe County Commissioners or by certified check, cashier’s check, or letter of credit upon a solvent bank in the amount of not less than 10% of the bid amount in favor of the aforesaid Monroe County Commissioners. A combination bid/performance/payment bond (contract bond) for 100% of the bid amount is acceptable and must conform to Ohio Revised Code Section 153.57.
Bids shall be sealed and marked as “Bid for Handicapped Parking” and mailed or delivered to:
Monroe County Commissioners
101 North Main Street, Room 34
Woodsfield, OH 43793
Attention of bidders is called to all the requirements contained in the bid packet, particularly to the Federal Labor Standards Revision, Davis-Bacon Act, various insurance requirements, various equal opportunity provisions, and the requirement for a payment bond and performance bond for 100% of the contract price.
No bidder may withdraw his bid within sixty (60) days after the actual date of the opening thereof. The Monroe County Commissioners reserve the right to waive any informality or to reject any or all bids.
September 21, 28, 2023
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NOTICE
The following matters are the subject of this public notice by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The complete public notice, including any additional instructions for submitting comments, requesting information, a public hearing, filing an appeal, or ADA accommodations may be obtained at: https://epa.ohio.gov/actions or Hearing Clerk, Ohio EPA, 50 W. Town St. P.O. Box 1049, Columbus, Ohio 43216. Ph: 614-644-3037 email: HClerk@epa.ohio.gov
Application Received for Air Permit
SWN Production (Ohio) LLC-Huffman Pad
43130 Mount Carrick Rd, Woodsfield, OH 43793
ID #: A0075175
Date of Action: 09/08/2023
SWN Production (Ohio), LLC (SWN) is submitting this Permit to Install and Operate (PTIO) application to obtain General Permit 12.1 (GP 12.1, High Volume Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil and Gas Well-Site Production Operations) for a natural gas production wellpad to be located in Monroe County, Ohio (Huffman Wellpad).
September 21, 2023
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IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
MONROE COUNTY, OHIO
Steven R. Riley, Plaintiff, v. GULFPORT ENERGY CORP., et al., Defendants.
Case No.: 2023-079
Judge Julie R. Selmon
LEGAL NOTICE
Defendants, The Unknown Heirs, Devisees, Legatees, Successors, and Assigns of the following persons – Rebecca Myers, Mary A. Taylor, A.W. Varner, Ellen Varner, Charles B. Mellott, Francis M. Mellott, Samuel W. Mellott, Martha A. Howell, Ella M. DeWeese, Frances A. Riley, John W. Coleman, and Connie Kanz aka Connie L. Kanz (“Defendants”) in the above-referenced matter, whose identities, residences, and/or addresses are unknown, shall take notice that on April 17, 2023, Steven R. Riley (“Plaintiff”) filed a Complaint against the Defendants and others in the Common Pleas Court of Monroe County, Ohio, Woodfield, OH 43793. Plaintiff seeks quiet title relief against the Defendants relating to certain real property interests located in Monroe County, Ohio and Plaintiff asks that the Common Pleas Court of Monroe County, Ohio find that several severed mineral interests are no longer valid.
The most recent addresses for the Defendants, or their identities, are unknown to Plaintiff.
The Defendants are required to answer on or before the twenty-eighth (28th) day following the last publication of the within Notice. Said publication shall be made in this newspaper at least once a week for six (6) consecutive weeks.
Matthew W. Onest (0087907)
KRUGLIAK, WILKINS, GRIFFITHS & DOUGHERTY CO., L.P.A.
6715 Tippecanoe Road, Ste. C2
Canfield, OH 44406
Phone: (330) 286-7065/Fax: (330) 244-4498
monest@kwgd.com
Counsel for Plaintiff
September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023
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LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Gulfport Appalachia, LLC (“Gulfport”), a Delaware corporation with an address of 713 Market Drive, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73114, hereby gives Notice pursuant to ORC 1509.28 that Gulfport has filed an application with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil & Gas Resources Management (“Division”) requesting an order from the Chief to allow for unit operation (“Unitization”) of certain contiguous properties in Wayne Township, Belmont County and Sunsbury Township, Monroe County, to form a drilling unit to be known as the Westhawk I Unit (the “Unit Area”).
Property records in Belmont and Monroe Counties depict the following mineral interest & possible parties owning in these tracts:
24-003028.0000, 24-003027.0000: Larry L. Phillips and Mercy C. Phillips
24-003012.2000: Heirs of Fred Tschappat and Linda Tschappat, deceased
If you would like to attend this hearing, please go to https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-teams/join-a-meeting, click on Join and enter the following meeting information: Meeting ID is 261 474 862 023; Passcode is 338D69. You may also listen to and participate in the hearing by phone by following the instructions detailed below: Phone Number is +1 614-721-2972 United States Toll; Phone Conference ID is 625 395 960#. Service by publication shall be complete upon the expiration of four weeks after the date of the first publication of this notice.
The date of the first publication of this notice is September 21, 2023. The date of the last publication is October 12, 2023. The parties, their representatives, & their successors in interest listed above are hereby notified that the Division has scheduled a virtual hearing for Wednesday, November 1, 2023, via Microsoft Teams at 2:30 p.m. est. Participants may also dial in via phone and enter the meeting access code. For further information regarding this hearing, please visit the Division of Oil & Gas Resources Management’s website at http://oil&gas.ohiodnr.gov/unitization.
September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 2023
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